The Quad Urbanist

Recently I was with a bunch of fellow Quad Citizens talking to a potential candidate to move here, and the topic of biking came up. My compa...

One of the most common reasons I hear (both in person and in writing) for preferring using a car over public transit is control: the idea th...

 In addition to pedestrianized spaces (or I guess technically as a subset of them, since you usually can't drive cars into these either)...

 Today I want to touch on one of the elements of good urban design that I most enjoy and most miss when I'm not near one: pedestrian spa...

I wanted to think about how cities ask you to enter them when you arrive as a tourist (or anyone, I suppose, since tourists don't have a...